Proposal:Safety measures on hiking trails
| Safety measures on hiking trails | |
|---|---|
| Proposal status: | Approved (active) |
| Proposed by: | unixasket |
| Tagging: | safety_rope=yes, length in m |
| Applies to: | node, way |
| Definition: | Ropes, rungs and ladders as safety measures on alpine hiking paths |
| Statistics: | |
| Rendered as: | As a red ladder, for example |
| Draft started: | 2012-09-19 |
| RFC start: | 2012-09-20 |
| Vote start: | 2014-06-22 |
| Vote end: | 2014-07-06 |
Summary
On many hiking trails through mountainous areas, dangerous or difficult sections are secured by technical means like steel cables, fixed ropes, ladders, or rungs.
Example for fixed rope:
Example for pins (next to a steel cable):
Rationale
Tagging secured sections in mountainous areas can help the hiker to identify difficult sections during the planning of her trip. sac_scale=* provides information about the general difficulty of a trail but doesn't reveal whether difficult sections are secured by technical means.
Related Tags
sac_scale=* describes the difficulty of alpine hiking trails.
There is a proposal for via ferrata: Proposed features/via ferrata. It also proposes the key ladder, therefore the keys in this proposal are defined accordingly.
How to map
All tags are added to an existing highway=path. Short sections can be tagged as node, longer sections as way. For rungs and pins, a complete group should be charted (not every single one as its own node). These tags are meant for hiking trails, they shouldn't be used for via ferrata because those ways are secured continuously by technical means.
If unsure whether to map a way as path with safety features or via ferrata see Proposed_features/via_ferrata#Criteria for taging as either via ferrata or path
Main Tags
| Key | Value | Element | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| safety_rope | yes/length in m | A cable, chain or rope to hold on to | ||
| ladder | yes/length in m | A ladder | ||
| rungs | yes/amount | Rungs, stemples, pins |
Additional Tag
| Key | Value | Element | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| safety_rope_side | left/right/both | Describes on which side the cable is fastened, in relation to the way's direction. Only applicable if safety_rope=yes (or length value) exists. |
Whole Path
If you don't want to split a longer highway=path into several segments to tag their particular safety measures you can add the following tag to the whole highway=path:
| Key | Value | Element | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| assisted_trail | yes | Way segment with different safety measures |
Comments
Talk:Safety measures on hiking trails
Voting
Please use {{vote|yes}} or {{vote|no}} and give your reasons to oppose. Use ~~~~ to sign your user name & date.
- I approve this proposal. Unixasket (talk) 18:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. 4rch (talk) 18:18, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Paracetamolo (talk) 18:53, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Jmos (talk) 18:55, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Schnupfix (talk) 19:33, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I oppose this proposal. Safety ropes and rungs always accompany a stretch of way. It does not make sense to tag them as nodes so this should be removed from the proposal. In the worst case it might lead to nonsensical mapping, tagging every rung individiually as a node. --Nop (talk) 20:13, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- Sometimes safety ropes are vertical. It is not possible in OSM to map vertical ways. Also safety ropes with less than 5 meter horizontal are to small to map as a way. In these cases nodes are better Unixasket (talk) 21:22, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --Maxbe (talk) 20:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --Alegria (talk) 20:52, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Jedrzej Pelka (talk) 21:08, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --Kaitu (talk) 22:53, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --KonfrareAlbert (talk) 16:23, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --Carlos Sánchez (talk) 23:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. sletuffe (talk) 10:03, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Brycenesbitt (talk) 03:16, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Extremecarver (talk) 18:01, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Mondschein (talk) 07:06, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. --Bma (talk) 09:20, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- I approve this proposal. Gisbert (Gmbo) (talk) 21:37, 6 July 2014 (UTC)